{"product_id":"mother-of-1084","title":"Mother of 1084","description":"Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. \u003ci\u003eMother of 1084\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Devi's most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation--a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government, leading to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the police morgue, reduced to a mere numeral: Corpse No. 1084. Through her struggle to understand his revolutionary commitment as a Naxalite, she recognizes her own alienation--as a woman and a wife--from the complacent, hypocritical, and corrupt feudal society her son had so fiercely rebelled against.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53020367913280,"sku":"9788170461395","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8912\/3648\/files\/imageloader_de0c16cb-d4e3-48da-a97f-bbe31f67d78f.jpg?v=1786629768","url":"https:\/\/silverstreetbooks.com\/products\/mother-of-1084","provider":"silverstreetbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}